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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Once the narrator becomes an adult, who tells him that he had been a monster when he was a child?
(a) His grandparents.
(b) His mom.
(c) His aunts.
(d) His dad.

2. What color is the bridge that Lettie and the narrator cross after the binding in Chapter 4?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue and brown.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red and yellow.

3. In Chapter 7, what flowers can the narrator see as he watches his father and Ursula walk around the gardens?
(a) Tulips.
(b) Daffodils and narcissi.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Roses and hollyhocks.

4. What is Lettie’s ocean implied to actually be?
(a) A watering trough.
(b) A duck pond.
(c) A bathtub.
(d) A river.

5. What is the name of the Hempstocks' cow?
(a) Bossy.
(b) Molly.
(c) Bessie.
(d) Bridget.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator go the morning after his confrontation with Ursula in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 4, what is the second color Lettie wants to find?

3. How long had Mr. Wollery tended the gardens at the narrator’s house before they lived there?

4. In Chapter 4, what does the narrator see beneath the milk-churn table?

5. What is the setting of the story that the narrator reads after his father and Ursula come in from the gardens in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe his seventh birthday party in Chapter 1?

2. What does Mr. Wollery find in the garden in Chapter 3?

3. What does the narrator find when he examines his foot in Chapter 5?

4. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?

5. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?

6. What does the narrator describe having cut out of his knee with a penknife in Chapter 5? What did he learn?

7. How does the narrator describe his family's last housekeeper in Chapter 6?

8. Why does the narrator have to share a room with his sister in Chapter 2?

9. Where did the narrator live growing up? At what point did his family move?

10. What are narcissi and what are they named for?

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